The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-11-03
WEST AND SOUTH.

The suit brought by the Milwaukee Malt
Company to compel the Rock Island railroad
to transport new beer through Iowa was
decided by the State Supreme Court on the
Oath in favor OF the railroad
FINDLAy, O., was swept by q tornado on
the oath which destroyed several houses
and damaged othera The loss was over
$3.50
THE Manistee (Mich) Lumber Company
and Jameson mill, on Manistee lake was
burned on the Oath with four million feet
Of seasoned lumber Loss, 100000
FIRE destroyed two-thirds of the town Of
Spencer, w. Va, on the Oath.
In the recent arrest Of seven men the
Chicago police said on the oath that they
had broken up the worst gang OF burglars
ever in that city.
In the Lawrence iron and steel works at
Trenton, O., the boilers blew up on the
oath, killing four men and seriously injur-
ing twenty others
The fourteenth baseball game I'm the
series for the worlds championship be-
tween the Detroit and St Louis clubs was
PLAYED In Chicago on the 25th. Score: De-
troits, 4: st Louis Browns, 8.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND on the 25th par
doned Henry G. Curkendall, convicted In
Michigan of having counterfeit coin In his
possession.
AT staunton aud Charlottesville, in Viz
ginia, heavy snow-storms occurred on the
25th
Rev. DAVID GRAY, the Oldest minister in
the Methodist church in Ohio expired at his
residence In Finday on the 18th, aged
eighty-scven years
G. c. LOOMS saw-mill and planning mill
at Looniis Station, Mo-, were destroyed by
fire on the 25th, causing loss OF $780,
OOO
The steam whalcr Orca, which arrived at
San Francisco on the o5th from the Arctic,
reported the catch OF the fleet for the sea-
son as the largest for many years. the total
number Of whales taken being 256. This
would amount to 4S.OUO pounds OF bone
and 2, 500 barrels of oil
As A mark Of respect to the memory OF
the late T. B. Washburne, of Chicago, who
was Secretary OF State for short time dur
ing President Grants Administration, the
State Department building at Washington
was draped in black on the 25th.
A WHITE man named Parrish, on the 25th,
shot and killed three negro men in Calhoun
County, Fla, because they took his boat
without permission to gather drift-wood In
the river.
The four year-old son Of George ". Moore,
Of Brazil, Ind. was fatally burned on the
25th, and the boys grandmother in at
tempting to mount horse to GO for doc
tor was thrown OF and fatally injured
AT Tampa, Fla, thirteen new cases OF vel.
low fever and three deaths occurred on the
25th The outlook was discouraging.
CHARLES BALDWIN, ex-justice OF the peace
Of Harrison township, Ind, while out hunt
ing on the 25th, was accidentally shot and
killed by his SON
GOLD was reported on the 25th to have
been found on the west bank OF tho Chip
pewa river, fifteen miles from it's mouth
Specimens exhibited at Eau Claire. Wis
were said to be of high value.
In Cincinnati on the 25th five hundred
cases Of typhoid fever were reported ano
the disease was rapidly spreading:
Ir was reported on the 25th from the
Northwest that the thermometer registered
point lower on that date than ever before
| in October
On the Goth q number OF ejectment suit,
were decided against farmers in Pops
County. Ill and In favor OF nonresident
claimants
THE closing game of the series for tn,
| worlds baee- ball championship played OF
| the 26th at St Louis resulted: St Louis, O.
! Detroit. 2 In the fifteen games. of which
Detroit won ten, Detroit scored II and thu
I St Louis Browns 53 runs
THERE had been up to the Goth from %;
to $50 cases Of yellow fever ut Tampa, Fla
| and 81 deaths
Two COMPANIES of rangers were ordered
to Starr County, Tex, on the 26th to pro
tect the inhabitants from the raids Of Mexi
| can bandits.
TIE steamship Gaelic arrived in San Fran
cisco on the 26th bringing news OF tn
drowning of three hundred persons II
Chinese waters by the wrecking Of tw'
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